A lot of the people I play it with are waiting for the December update to make a final verdict. The framework is in place for an awesome MMORPG experience. The story is engaging and enjoyable as it is now. The crafting system is a bit convoluted, but has good ideas in place. The battle system is awesome minus a few bugs that are supposedly being addressed in December.

Long story short: Improvements and enhancements are expected by the community in December. If they happen, people will stay and the community will grow. If they don't happen you can call FFXIV officiall dead.

As I suspected, businessmen are suffocating developers in Japan, and are a main reason for the gaming decline there.

If you look at the good games coming from Japan, you find they are from devs with more freedom like Itagaki and the guys at Platinum and from smaller purer companies like Atlus (hope the management reshuffle doesn't screw them)

So many words about this game I wouldn't be able to fit it all in this small box. Ass a huge fan of both FFXI and the FF series in general I am well beyond disappointed in this title. Once my free time is gone, I am gone as well until this game receives a MAJOR complete overhaul. This game is still effectively a beta and sure as hell not worth paying a monthly fee to play.

Blame it on Square, blame it on Wada....; whichever, these people obviously no longer deserve to develop Final Fantasy games.

He mentioned about developing market Interests in China... Why you may ask? Well money is clearly his game here. Maybe he should take a long hard look at the products that he is producing first & foremost. As improving the quality of his products will improve his sales. Am I being too clever?? NOT